Izumi Hara

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.